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In which aspects do hearing Mozart music helps?
by: Elsa B.
 * [[image:picture_mozart_big.jpg width="166" height="223"]] || A very common myth everyone believes is that if you put Mozart music to your baby, he will get **smarter**. What not everyone knows is if it is true, or in what ways will it help the baby. Not everyone cares, but they still do it because they want what is best for their babies. What they don’t know is that this topic is very interesting, and they might expect or believe something different than it actually is. So a question I always wondered is, in which aspects do hearing Mozart music helps?

First they believed listening to 10 minutes of Mozart before a spatial test appeared to **improve performance** on the test. Then they discovered hearing the music from this author also appeared to **improve scores**. They started to do tests to see if this was true. They noticed **Schubert** increased performance just as well as Mozart. This demonstrated the key to superior performance is enhancing one´s **mood**, and it does not have to be by music necessarily, it could be by doing what you like, or eating what you like. Music affects how energetic and happy people feel. People with better mood score better on tests. Mozart has an **up-beat** so it gives more energy to the people who hear it and they can get in a better mood for the tests. || But people still think it has other effects, on babies. When babies are very young they have the ability to difference music while adults can´t, so when they are babies they have that talent but it disappears as they grow. If they want the talent to remain the parents need to expose them to music since little, and Mozart can help on that. Mozart music does not only help on those aspects in babies. A study on twenty preterm infants listened to Mozart for thirty minutes and used 10-13% less energy at rest. Some scientists believe it reduces stress or have other beneficial effects, but the effect does not last long. //“The Mozart Effect”// shows that music could **reduce stress** in premature infants and **improve weight gain** and shorten their amount of **time in the hospital**. The effect lasts while the music is on.

Besides, Mozart music helps at other things too, and not only on premature babies. Listening to music at a very early age affects the **spatial**, **temporal reasoning** that helps in math, engineering, and even chess. Hearing Mozart does not make you smarter, but maybe **playing** it will. The acquired skills can remedy **language impairment** such as dyslexia. Mozart is helpful also to those who play it, because musical experience has a pervasive effect on how the **nervous system** gets molded and shaped. Musical raining improves **verbal and nonverbal skills**. Playing an instrument may **add finesse** to how people move their bodies. Making music makes you **hear better** and also improve **grammar skills**. Mozart music is helpful in many ways if you use it the right ways.  media type="youtube" key="X-5rnB4SOSE" height="351" width="431" align="center"